“I was raised not to look at people racially.

What I was taught is that we’re flowers in the Great Spirit’s

garden. We share a common root, and the root is Mother Earth. The garden is beautiful because it has
different colors in it, and those colors represent different traditions and cultural backgrounds.” –
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Native Americans are well-known for their beliefs about the sacredness of nature. Their folklore and
traditional customs inspires one to see the holiness in the spirit of everything around us. This instils a
deep sense of reverence for Mother Nature into the natives. According to them, everything is an
expression of the divine and all truth can be found in nature.